COMMUNITY CONCERTS

Claudia has an extensive history collaborating with community organizations in small towns and big city neighborhoods from New York City to the Midwest. Generally these are volunteer-run non-profit organizations whose mission is to bring affordable, high caliber entertainment featuring regional and national artists.

From Amery, Wisconsin to Troy, Ohio, from the Chicago Cultural Center to Tulsa, Oklahoma, Claudia's shows are always a big hit as she takes her audience to Paris with a song!

COMMUNITIES WE HAVE PLAYED FOR

AMERY, WISCONSIN: day and evening performances for Amery High School and community with Claudia and Bob Moreen.

ANN ARBOR, MI: the Kerrytown Concert House presents The Jazz Fauré Project.

BATTLE CREEK MUSIC CENTER celebrates its annual gala with Claudia's C'est si bon and Stefan Kukurugya on keyboard and vocals

BATTLE CREEK FIRST CONGREGATIONAL presents Women of Paris for their classical concert series in the round

CEDARBURG CULTURAL CENTER, Wisconsin presents Women of Paris with Claudia, Elizabeth Doyle and accordionist Don Stille

CHICAGO ACCORDION CLUB goes Parisian with Claudia Hommel, accordionist Don White and bassist Carol Rand.

CHICAGO: ARCHER HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION brings Winter Lights in Paris to celebrate the season.

CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER:
  • Claudia brings April in Paris to the Renaissance Court for a sold-out crowd of 100 plus.
  • Claudia and Bob Moreen pack the 250-seat Randolph Street Café to celebrate Michel LeGrand's birthday. And again with Souvenirs of Paris. And again with Paris in the Jazz Age.
  • Claudia brings SongShop to the Lunch-break series for You Make Me Feel So Young with music director Bob Moreen and Taking Chances with music director Sue Keller.
  • Upstairs in the Claudia Cassidy Theatre, Claudia's Espresso celebrates the holidays.
  • And We've Got You Under Our Skin— a Cole Porter tribute with Tracy Adams, Bernie Allen, Jen Chada, Roberta Miles and Bob Moreen, is sponsored by the Cultural Affairs department in a cabaret setting on the third floor.

CHICAGO LOOPTOPIA—Chicago's "nuit blanche"—making music till midnight as hundreds of people stroll through the Art Institute of Chicago gallery.

COLUMBUS, OH: "First Night Columbus" brings in the New Year with panache, French songs and accordion.

GREEN LAKE, WISCONSIN: Green Lake Festival of Music presents a Parisian evening with Claudia Hommel, Johnny Frigo and Bob Moreen at the 400-seat Opera House.
Claudia returns with Bobby Schiff for a free concert for children and their families of That's What Makes Paris, Paree. And the Green Lake Festival presents the Jazz Fauré Project in the evening.

HAMILTON, OH: Fitton Arts Center presents Women of Paris with Claudia Hommel and Elizabeth Doyle for their annual gala.

HILLSBORO, IL: Master classes at the local high school are followed by a concert at the Moose Lodge as gala for the local hospital foundation.

IRONWOOD, MI: The historic Ironwood Theatre presents Espresso-4 Voices with Elizabeth Doyle, John Eskola, Claudia Hommel and Bob Moreen.

JACKSONVILLE, IL: A four-day residency with Claudia, singer Sean Harris and singer-pianist Elizabeth Doyle, offering performances for elementary, middle and high school students, a show for the senior living center, master classes at the community college, a special all-day visit by Sean who inspires the students of the School for the Visually-Impaired, a formal concert for the community at large, a coffee house concert in nearby Virginia, and an informal cabaret jam session at the historic arts center house.

LAKE FOREST, IL: The Gorton Center presents the "out of town tryout" for the full Jazz Fauré Project and also hosts several of Claudia's performances with Johnny Frigo for the Parisian Salon Concerts

MANHATTAN, KS: High School and Community Center fill with master classes, school performances of Souvenirs of Paris, 1950 and an evening show of Women of Paris with Elizabeth Doyle at the piano.

NAPERVILLE, IL: Claudia sings in Chinese and French for East Meets West at North Central College

NEW YORK: Center for Inter-American Relations presents Claudia's Sabor a Cabaret: Canciones a la Vida with pianist Pablo Zinger, directed by Livia Perez

WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI: Claudia brings French songs to the Jewish Community Center's annual Music Festival at the Berman Center.

PALOS PARK, IL: the Center Foundation offers a dinner show to celebrate Valentine's Day with Claudia's trio or Espresso year after year after year.

PARIS: At the foot of Montmartre, Les Halles St. Pierre serves as an arts and culture center for the community. A great place for the University of Chicago Paris Center to bring us to perform the Jazz Fauré Project.

PLYMOUTH, WI: Plymouth Arts Center presents Claudia's cabaret at the tavern Turner Hall

ROCKFORD, IL: Charlotte's Web presents the Paris/Paree quartert at Louis Cooper's Restaurant.

RUSHVILLE, IL: The Schuyler County Arts Council brings Claudia Hommel to lead masterclasses at the high school and present April in Paris with pianist Bob Moreen in the evening. The students demand a second masterclass the next year.

SAINT JOSEPH, MI: Box Factory for the Arts presents its annual gala with Souvenirs of Paris; return engagements with Romance Language, a gala Paris in the Jazz Age, Espresso—The Holiday Brew, and a Vocal Canvas concert inspiring and inspired by the work of local artists.

SARASOTA, FL: The Artists Series presents Under Paris Skies with Claudia Hommel and Bob Moreen. A return engagement regales the Artists Series board and donors at a private house concert, Randy Morris at the piano.

SHEBOYGAN, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center hosts a French Family Festival for which Claudia entertains the children and then the young-at-heart.

SIDNEY, OH : The Gateway Arts Council presents Claudia Hommel's April in Paris: Music for Lovers! with Bobby Schiff at the piano. Bobby falls in love with Natasha, but that's another story!

TROY, MI: Souvenirs of Paris for the Troy and Mt. Clemens Community Concert Association, featuring Claudia's Cabaret-Paree Ensemble (accordion, bass, piano).

TROY, OH's Troy Hayner Center has a French salon evening in the ballroom.

TULSA, Oklahoma's Alliance Française hosts a master class for Union High student performers, a school program at the Monte Cassino School and Women of Paris at the evening cabaret, with Bob Moreen at the piano.


OUR FAVORITE BOUTIQUES:
PALOS HEIGHTS: Mona & Co. hosted many times Claudia and accordionist Don White playing among the racks and shelves at this cosy French boutique.
EVANSTON: Marie-Parie boutique catches on to do the same.